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JAMES BREAKEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINECOMPANY,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPEGEFIO'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

668,346, dated February 19, 1901.

Application filed July 7, 1900. 'Serial No. 22,786. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BREAKEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inType-Distributing Apparatus, of which the following is a specificationsufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the inventionappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the class of typedistributing apparatus known asthe Alden and clearly shown and described in the patents to ThomasReeve, No. 245,563, dated August 9, 1881, and to A. O. Richards, No.212,503, dated February 18, 1879.

The object of myinvention is to lessen the wear on the type byautomatically opening the shutter-latches prior to the insertion of atype, thereby relieving them of frictional contact to which they haveheretofore been subjected while pressing back the shutterlatch.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of thelatch and adjoining parts of the apparatus, the parts being at rest intheir normal position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the lifting-ringpartially raised and its action upon the latch-opener; Fig. 3, a detailView showing the position of the latch-opener when the lifting-ring isfully raised. Fig. 1 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a type uponthe lifter and the shutter-opener about to recede from its shutterlatch.Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are sectional views upon an enlarged scale, showingthe operation of the shutter-latch opener, latch, &c.

A is the frame of the machine.

R is the lifting-ring.

L is one of the lifters for raising the types from the shutter-channelO, as fully set forth in said patents hereiubefore referred to.

a is a bracket or arm rigidly `attached t0 the frame A of the machine,upon which bracket ce is mounted a bell-crank lever B, the lower end ofwhich is connected by a spring q to a stationary part of the machine.The opposite end of this bell-'crank lever B is formed to act as ashutter-opener O for thrusting back the shutter-latch S, as illustratedin Figs. 5, 6, and 7. This may be done by the'end of the lever B, itselfto act as an opener, obviously; but I prefer to form the opener of aseparate piece, as shown in the drawings, and to make said opener Oadjustable upon the end of the rock-lever B by means of a set-screw p,passing through the slot o in the opener O and engaging with ascrew-thread in the leverB. The lower arm of the lever B is formed witha cam-surface b for engagement with a roller r upon the lifting-ring R,the functions of which latter are fully set forth in the patentshereinbefore referred to.

D is the reciprocating pusher, by which the types are transferred fromthe galley-channel to the lifterL, upon which they are carried until theindividual channel for which the latch is set is reached by the rotationof the latch-ring E, as heretofore, it being understood that theshutter-latch opener, herein shown and described, is used only at thepoint at which the types are fed onto the liftinglatches.

The operation is as follows: Upon the upward movement of thelifting-ringR theroller r presses against the cam-surface b of the leverB, thereby rocking the opener O downward, so that its rounded or bevelededge forces the shutter-latch S backward against the resistance of thelatch-spring s (shown in Fig. 5) and holds the shutter back while thetype 'l is fed into the shutter-channel O and upon the liftinglatch L bythe pusher lD. During the return or downward movement of thelifting-ring R the roller r will again pass over the cam-surface b,rocking the lever into its normal position by reason of the retractilespring q. It will thus be seen that the types are transferred to thelifters L with little or no frictional contact with the shutter S uponthe opposed side of the channel O and are thus relieved of the wear andstrain to which they have heretofore been subjected in being themselvesused to force open the shutter S.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In type-distributing apparatus the combination with the lifting-ring,of a shutter.- latch opener actuated thereby, substantially in themanner and for the purpose set forth.

2. In type-distributing apparatus the combination of the lifting-ring R,the latch L, the lateral shutter S, and the shutter-opener O,

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ed adj ustably upon said bell-Crank lever B,

substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

4. In type-distributing apparatus the cornbination of the lifting-latchL, spring-shutter S, the shutter-opener O, mounted upon the rock-leverB, said rock-lever B, formed with the cam-su rfaeeb, and thelifting-ring R, provided with the roller r, for engagement with saidcam-surface b, substantially in the manner and for the purpose setforth.

JAMES BREAKEY.

D. W.v GARDNER,

Witnesses:

GEO. WM. MIATT.

